Articles by Niall Browne

Review: COCAINE BEAR Lacks Bite – It’s More Like Cocaine Bore!

Cocaine Bear has become much more than a movie. It’s a cultural reference onto itself, a title that conjures up certain B-movie thrills and a trailer that set the internet ablaze. Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear is loosely based on a true [...]

March 19, 2023

Review: George A. Romero’s Cult Vampire Horror MARTIN

Writer/Director George A. Romero will forever be associated with zombie films. After all, he did kick-start the never-dying horror sub-genre with 1968’s The Night Of The Living Dead before cementing his status as the ‘Dad of The Dead’ [...]

March 19, 2023

Why Ben Affleck Is Done With Batman & The Other DC Comics Superheroes

Ben Affleck’s excellent-looking Air is gearing-up for release and therefore the actor/director/producer/writer/CEO is out promoting the film. He sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for a a wide-ranging chat and talked about the nightmare [...]

March 17, 2023

Podcast – Episode 31: A L Katz Talks The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast & Tales From The Crypt

Running on HBO for seven seasons and 93 episodes from 1989 to 1996, Tales From The Crypt was a wonderfully ghoulish show that was based on Bill Gaines’ EC Comics imprint of the same name. Executive produced by Joel Silver, Richard Donner, Robert [...]

March 15, 2023

THE MOVIE CRITIC: Quentin Tarantino Eyes His Final Film As Director

Word on the street is that Quentin Tarantino is getting ready to shoot his tenth – and final – film as director. Titled The Movie Critic, the film is apparently based on the time that famed film critic Pauline Kael was persuaded to [...]

March 15, 2023

Tom Cruise Gets The Drop In The New Poster For MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

In 2022, Tom Cruise saved cinema with the massive success of the magnificent Top Gun: Maverick. He’ll be back busting blocks in 2023 with Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. The seventh and allegedly penultimate instalment in the [...]

March 14, 2023

Podcast – Episode 30: Director Yoko Okumura Talks About Her Comedy-Thriller UNSEEN

Japanese-American director Yoko Okumura makes a punchy feature film debut with Unseen, a new genre-bending comedy-thriller from Blumhouse Productions. Running a tight eighty minutes, Unseen stars Midori Francis as Emily, a woman escaping from a [...]

March 12, 2023

Movies In Focus Selects The Top 10 Kevin Costner Films

Movies In Focus readers will know that I’m a huge fan of the mighty Kevin Costner – I even had the pleasure of meeting him on the set of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Therefore it was an absolute joy to join the The Top 10 Of Anything [...]

March 8, 2023

Podcast – Episode 29: Writer/Director Corey Deshon Talks About His New Thriller DAUGHTER

Corey Deshon, the talented multi-hyphenate writer-director joins the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about his new film, Daughter. Daughter is an intense psychological thriller that stars Vivien Ngô as a young woman who is abducted and then [...]

March 2, 2023

Short Film: Jack Nicholson & John Belushi Are THE COWBOY & THE SAMURAI

The Cowboy & The Samurai is a first-rate short film from The Lewis Brothers which imagines a face-off between Jack Nicholson and John Belushi at the time they were filming the 1978 western, Goin’ South (Nicholson directed the film and [...]

February 24, 2023

Behind The Scenes: Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg, Jeff Cohen & Ke Huy Quan On The Set Of THE GOONIES

Produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Chris Columbus and directed by Richard Donner; it’s no wonder that The Goonies is one of the most beloved films of the 1980s. It’s a movie for kids, that doesn’t talk down to them. Columbus’s script [...]

February 22, 2023

Review: GATEWAY Is A Mysterious Metaphysical Horror Film

Writer/director Niall Owens’ Gateway is an Irish horror film which gives a new and intriguing spin on the traditional haunted house trope. Starting off as a gritty crime film, Gateway then segues into a metaphysical horror that delivers well-honed [...]

February 19, 2023

30 Seconds Of Action From INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

Here’s the 30 second Big Game TV spot for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. It sure looks like an Indiana Jones film – even if there’s a bit too much CGI (did they learn nothing from Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The [...]

February 13, 2023

Michael Keaton’s Batman Returns In The New Trailer For THE FLASH

Yes, Ben Affleck’s Batman is also in there (as is Ezra Miller‘s Flash and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl) – but the big selling point of this new trailer (and TV spot) for The Flash is Michael Keaton’s return as Batman. [...]

February 13, 2023

Behind The Scenes: Elliott Gould & Robert Altman On The Set Of THE LONG GOODBYE

The great Elliott Gould plays Raymond Chandler’s iconic and laconic private detective, Philip Marlow in this screen adaptation of The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman directs this film, which oozes ’70s cinematic style. Altman’s 1973 film sees [...]

February 12, 2023

Shadow Of The Bat: Batman Looms Large In The New Poster For THE FLASH

The marketing campaign for The Flash is beginning to ramp-up as Andy Muschietti‘s superhero film speeds towards its June 16, 2023 release date. Two new posters have arrived ahead of a Super Bowl trailer – and they show that the shadow of [...]

February 12, 2023

Courting Success: Trailer For Ben Affleck’s Nike Drama AIR Starring Matt Damon

Air is a new comedy-drama based on the true-life tale of how Nike’s Sonny Vaccaro signed basketball player Michael Jordan for the iconic Air Jordan shoe. Directed by Ben Affleck, Air stars Matt Damon as Vaccaro, Jason Bateman, Chris [...]

February 9, 2023

Competition: Win BONES AND ALL Starring Timothée Chalamet On Blu-ray & DVD

Bones And All is available to own on Combi Pack from Monday 6th February and to celebrate, Movies In Focus is offering 1 lucky reader the chance to win a copy. Directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, the film is based on [...]

February 3, 2023

OSCARS 2023: A Full List Of The 95th Academy Awards Nominations

Movies In Focus is just going to say this up front – I want Top Gun: Maverick to win Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards. The reason being is that it’s a crowd pleaser – a movie. A Hollywood movie. It deserves to win. It would [...]

January 24, 2023

We Almost Got ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES 2 – Here’s What It Would Have Been About

Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves is one of the biggest and most enduring hits of the 1990s. The Kevin Costner starrer grossed almost $400 million following its release in 1991 and while many films from that era received sequels, Robin Hood: Prince Of [...]

January 19, 2023

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